
Originally Posted by
BABY J
Oh yeah ... and back to the creationist topic.
If you ask a believer "is the universe built for life?" his answer will be a resounding YES. "It's too perfect here to be an accident." I find that interesting and pretty rediculous.
Well I say that life as we know it exists because of the universe it evolved in. If the universe were slightly different, life as we would know it would be slightly different. If the universe were radically different, life as we would know it would be radically different.
Creationists like to tell us that God put the Earth the perfect distance from the sun. Any closer and we would fry, and further and we would freeze. Well I would remind those people that, were we closer the sun, we would be more tolerant of the heat... further and we would be more tolerant of the cold.
The universe has been here much longer than humanity... any1 who has passed 4th grade will agree. It seems foolish to logically reason that the needs of the latter was responsible for the specifications of the former. But who asked me - I'm just your local neighborhood Baby J. To each his own.